xforms (W3C) intepreter in Python?

[Paul Boddie]

"Brad Clements" <bkc at Murkworks.com> wrote in message news:<3e3a85d4_1 at spamkiller.newsgroups.com>...
> 
> I'll laugh here, I haven't tried the "novell xforms preview ". Just from
> reading the whitepaper and description I can tell it's not ready for me to
> deploy. In any case, it's fall out from their purchase of .. that company
> that makes SOAP tools.. Gee, can't recall.

Silverstream, isn't it? "Those people look as if they're hip to
cutting-edge technologies - let's buy them!"

> It's all lots of fun, but I'm getting tired of writing the same code over
> and over. I'd like a higher-level view of layout, validation, minimal
> client-side logic and submission.

Is the data being edited highly structured and hierarchical? When I've
had conversations with people about form validation, I get the
impression that most people make fairly simple forms, particularly
where Web forms are concerned. Indeed, many examples of form
validation technology seem to have about three fields and a button,
and they never seem to cover error conditions very satisfactorily.

When I've experimented with all this before, I've been aiming to
integrate the input of form data with the output/template system, with
special support for error conditions introduced through validation. I
think that the lack of integration throughout these processes is what
makes the usage of many tools much harder (or really, much more
tedious) than it ought to be.

Paul